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The Zilber Family Foundation is giving $20 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health to support faculty excellence and student achievement. Specifically, the funding will support two endowments: the Zilber Faculty...

Registered nurse Lindsey Roddy witnessed the dangers of tangled medical tubing when she nearly lost a patient after a medical line carrying life support medications caught and was pulled out from the patient’s body. Studies indicate that 19 million medical lines are...

WRTP | BIG STEP, a nonprofit workforce intermediary, is working with Madison startup Realta Fusion in a partnership that will work to identify the competencies and skills needed to create and sustain Wisconsin’s fusion workforce as the industry develops. “There’s no...

Bend Health, Inc. ("Bend") a leading national, virtual pediatric behavioral care provider that raised $32 million in capital last year, today announced an expansion of its child and adolescent mental health care services to include virtual neuropsychological...

In a recent blog post on LinkedIn, AmpliPhi Digital founder Spencer X. Smith highlighted mounting concerns about the potential for "deepfakes" such as manipulated video, audio and images to mislead people. Because AI has now advanced enough to create convincing fakes,...

Fast-growing Milwaukee startup Atomix Logistics LLC is doubling the size of its current facility with a move to a 60,000-square-foot warehouse near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport. It also said it plans to double the size of its team. The startup, which...

Madison-based RadUnity Corp., a startup creating a platform aimed at making the process of medical imaging within the health care industry more uniform, has closed a $500,000 seed funding round. The funding came from two undisclosed angel investors based in...

Milwaukee-based blood health and research organization Versiti on Monday announced its acquisition of Quantigen, a specialty lab in Fishers, Indiana. Founded as an expert methods development laboratory, Quantigen provides a range of services supporting preclinical...

Finding caregivers for an older relative is no easy task, and it’s even harder for families to monitor how well that essential care is given. Scott Zielski, of Eau Claire, learned that quickly when his father moved back and forth among hospitals, skilled nursing...

Gov. Tony Evers today announced the release of the Governor’s Task Force on Broadband Access’ third annual report. Building upon findings from the previous two reports, the 2023 report provides an update on efforts under Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration to...

The 2023 Future 50 winners have added nearly 1,400 jobs in the Milwaukee region during the past three years. Future 50 recognizes the fastest growing companies in southeastern Wisconsin. The program started in 1988 with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of...

Don’t expect to see the construction cranes that tower over Epic to disappear anytime soon. Epic Systems Corp. is designing a sixth campus, starting with a 5.5-acre, four-story underground parking ramp with 2,050 parking stalls on its northwest side to anchor an...

Astrophysicists have long predicted that the Milky Way is a source of ghostly particles called neutrinos, but haven’t been able to detect them. Until now. In a new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a massive detector at the IceCube...

RadUnity Corp., a University of Wisconsin spin-off that focuses on data normalization in medical imaging, has secured $500,000 in seed funding, the organization announced recently. According to a release, the funding will advance the development and implementation of...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Nick Myers, CEO and co-founder of Madison-based RedFox AI. The startup company has a conversational artificial intelligence platform that’s meant to help guide patients through the process of at-home...